PRAISES
“Anyone seeking to understand the Russian side of the debate [on world order] should read this informative and insightful study.”
Carl Linden, Perspectives on Political Science (US)
“A virtue of Tsygankov’s book is the systematic way it illiminates the intellectual infrastructure of these 1990s policy developments.”
Neil Malcolm, The Slavonic and East European Review (UK)
“A special interest and scientific value of the book [is that] in essence […] Tsygankov attempts to understand the nature of Russian-American relations after the Cold War and to demonstrate how ideas formulated in one country could obtain just the reverse meaning in another.”
Marina Lebedeva, International Trends (Russia)
“A perceptive and intelligent book which manages to combine contemporary IR scholarship with Russian intellectual debate in a productive and thought-provoking manner.”
Ronand Dannreuther, Europe-Asia Studies (UK)
“Besides his very cogent analysis of discourses of Russian foreign policy […] Tsygankov offers more than a few intriguing taxonomic and theoretical insights along the way. Of particular note is his parsing of ‘world order projects’ according to their level of ethnocentrism and the variation in reception for these projects by globalist and nationalist discourses at home.”
Ted Hopf, Slavic Review (US)
“It is to Tsygankov’s credit that he reminded us that we do as scholars sometimes has far-reaching effects and is urging us to be mindful of the consequences of our actions.”
William Zimmerman, Perspectives on Politics (US)
“A contribution to the intellectual life in the country […] an interesting book to read.”
Vladimir Shlapentokh, The Russian Review (US)
“A stimulating analysis of the way in which two leading Western theories of the post-Cold War era were received in Russia.”
Graeme Gill, Australian Journal of International Affairs
CRITIQUES
“This argument is problematic because of the emphasis Tsygankov places on theoretical and ideological factors at the expense of economic and geopolitical considerations.”
J. L. Nogee, Choice (US)
“Depiction of the Russian dialogue is […] followed by some inferential leaps that are really quite startling and a normative critique of Fukuyama’s and Huntington’s work that most readers, I suspect, will find ultimately unpersuasive.”
William Zimmerman, Perspectives on Politics (US)
“Tsygankov tends to ignore the complexities of social reality and their influence on ideological struggle in Russia … [the] book reflects a trend in Russian intellectual life of looking to the West in one way or another as a scapegoat.”
Vladimir Shlapentokh, The Russian Review (US)
“Tsygankov […] insists that Huntington and Fukuyama are ‘moral failures’ because their ideas were used in Russia to justify more forceful Russian behavior abroad […] this argument seems a stretch, to say the least.”
Ted Hopf, Slavic Review (US)